Well, we are blessed to address that the X-line analysis looks acceptable on the Soul. The actualization amalgamation includes anatomy cladding, appropriate auto and matte argent accents. It all adds up to edgier styling. My two teen-age sons both anticipation the analysis fabricated the Soul added desirable, abreast from the (literally) over-the-top taillights in the back.

The 2020 Soul marks the third bearing of the abounding compact, which competes with such baby crossovers as the Nissan Kicks, Honda HR-V and Toyota C-HR.

› Model: 2020 Kia Soul X-Line

› Exterior color: Gravity Grey

› Autogenous color: Black

› Engine: 2.o-liter, four-cylinder

› Horsepower: 147

2020 Kia Soul Interior
Review

› Transmission: continuously variable

› Ammunition economy: 33 mpg highway, 27 mpg city

› Bounded Dealer: Kia of Chattanooga

› Amount (as tested): $22,615

Souls are accessible locally at Kia of Chattanooga, 2136 Chapman Road. Late aftermost anniversary the dealership had 24 of the 2020 archetypal Souls in agenda inventory.

WHAT IS IT?

The 2020 Kia Soul is a redesigned, third-generation archetypal featuring the boxlike administration and all-embracing autogenous that accept fabricated it one of the Korean car company’s added accepted offerings. With a bashful sticker amount and abounding basement for five, the Soul is a acceptable best for Chattanooga breadth drivers who accent autogenous space. Its anarchistic administration is a additional or a bare depending on your tastes.

WHAT DOES IT COST?

A abject Soul starts at $17,490. Our mid-trim Soul X-Line has a basal band of $22,615, and bluntly it looks like a added big-ticket car. The Gravity Grey paint, machined auto and bigger grille, accord it the attending of a cher European hatch. A top-trim Soul with a turbocharged agent can admission $30,000, but best of the models at your bounded Kia abundance will be afterpiece to $20,000.

THE GOOD?

The Soul X-Line is a attractive little bunched that doesn’t abuse your back-seat cartage with awkward leg room. The drivetrain is smooth, if alone abundantly powerful, and the car comes with a aerial akin of technology standard. Our tester, for example, comes with dark atom blow admonishing and rear cross-traffic alert.

2020 Kia Soul Interior
First Drive

THE BAD?

It’s an odd flaw, but my cartage and I noticed that the aperture latches accord about no acknowledgment back opened from inside, so you never absolutely apperceive back to push. The aperture panels are fabricated of adamantine plastic, with adorned handle surrounds that assume altered to the interior.

DRIVING EXPERIENCE

Our tester, provided for a one-week attack by Kia, has 2.0-liter four butt agent that makes 147 horsepower. The agent is akin to a continuously capricious transmission. We begin the Soul to be an acquisitive commuter-car with affluence of auto for casual and merging.

BOTTOM LINE

We anticipate the Soul X-Line is an accomplished amount that allowances from analogous some of the administration cues begin on avant-garde baby crossovers. And with its 30 mpg accumulated ammunition abridgement and 10-year/100,000-mile powertrain warranty, it’s a abundant best for acceptance or newly-independent academy graduates.

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As of this writing, the 2020 Kia Soul Interior
sits atop our rankings thanks to its responsive engine, sporty handling, refined interior, and accommodating rear seats and cargo space. Although the changes for 2020 are minor, the 2020 Kia Soul Interior
was clearly in a good place already. When the 2020 Kia Soul Interior
goes on sale at the end of 2019, it will be offered in either front-wheel-drive sDrive28i or all-wheel-drive xDrive28i trim. Returning is the 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine (228 horsepower and 258 lb-ft of torque) as well as the eight-speed automatic transmission. 2020 estimates the 2020 Kia Soul Interior
will reach 60 mph in 6.3 seconds for xDrive and 6.6 seconds for the sDrive.

Pricing hasn’t been announced yet, but we expect it to cost about the same as the current 2020 Kia Soul Interior
, which starts around $35,000 for the sDrive28i and $37,000 for the xDrive28i. Check back with Edmunds for more information and impressions as we near the on-sale date.